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[WOMAN] She was long
and lean and lanky
[MAN] And she was very talented and knew it,
and very beautiful and knew it,
and I never got the sense that
she was ashamed of any of her gifts.
[WOMAN] Dorothy's work
arose from the fact that she sacrificed
the love of her life.
If she embraced the Catholic faith,
we'd have nothing more to do with her.
[MAN] Dorothy Day had a radical analysis
of the economics of society
and what aught to be done about it.
[WOMAN] She was used to working to change the world,
to make a difference
[MAN] There was no separation between life in prayer
and the ordinary activities of everyday life.
And so there was a spiritual contemplative dimension
to all those things
as much as there was to picketing at the White House or
sitting in jail.
[WOMAN] Non-violence makes the world safe for conflict.
You can have conflict, but you don't go to the point of, of killing.
And that was what Dorothy taught.
[MAN] She had an enormous ability
to enter other peoples' lives,
to experience what they experienced,
and to come out of it with a great longing
that life shouldn't be so hard for so many people.
[DOROTHY] If your brother is hungry you feed him.
You don't meet him at the door and say "go be thou filled."
You sit him down, feed him.
[WOMAN] I always considered that
the Catholic Worker was really
Dorothy's own home, and she had her guests
no matter how many.
[MAN] Dorothy Day has been
a kind of figure that has been sort of laying in the background
whose perhaps ideas were so advanced
that they were not able to be recognized at the moment
as perhaps being divinely inspired.
[Closed Captioning provided by: K. Steffens]